Princeton Softech today announced that Archive for Servers provides complete support for rich media and large data objects (LOBs), enabling companies to archive group images, video clips, audio files and large documents.

Archiving rich media delivers significant benefits to industries that must store LOBs to comply with corporate policy or government regulations. Archive for Servers provides easy access to archived LOBs, which can be researched, browsed and restored to production databases if needed for business or legal reasons, even if the data model has changed in the meantime. "As the market leader in active archiving, Princeton Softech's vision is to enhance and broaden its technology across as many markets as possible," said Lisa Cash, President and CEO of Princeton Softech. "Support for rich media follows the natural evolution of our Active Archive Solutions, further addressing important data storage issues that our customers in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial services, and other industries deal with everyday."

Active archiving optimizes disk utilization, improves database performance and increases availability uptime by removing infrequently used data from production databases and storing it on a more cost-effective medium. With the potential to save millions of dollars in deferred capacity upgrades and maintenance fees, active archiving can deliver a rapid return on investment and provide a long-term solution to the problem of skyrocketing database growth.